Motivational Quotes

Prayer

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Prayer

So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Bible

Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.

John of the Cross, St.

Prayer is talking with God and telling Him you love Him, conversing with God about all the things that are important in life, both large and small, and being assured that He is listening.

Strait, C. Neil

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

Oscar Wilde

Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it.

Proverb, English

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

Twain, Mark

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Eckhart, Meister

Practice in life whatever you pray for and God will give it to you more abundantly.

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationships.

Carrel, Dr. Alex

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No one can pray well, but those who live well.

Proverb

12.

Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.

Robson, Dame Flora

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God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.

Juvenal

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It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.

Macaulay, J. C.

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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Hippocrates

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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb

18.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

Phillips Brooks

19.

Why is it when we talk to God, we're praying, but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?

Tomlin, Lily

20.

Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks. [I Thessalonians]

Bible

21.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone.

Foster, Robert D.

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Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.

Pilgrim, Peace

24.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

25.

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

Lessing, Gotthold

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But if it were I, I would appeal to God; I would lay my cause before Him. He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted. [Job 5:8-9]

Bible

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Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Indeed many things which we shall not be able to discover either by the experiment of works or by the investigations of reason we shall deserve to be taught by importunate prayer, by the revelation of divine inspiration.

Richard of Saint Victor

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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

Barr, Amelia E.

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The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.

Josh Billings

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When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer.

Conwell, Russel H.

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If you can't pray a door open, don't pry it open.

Rader, Lyell

34.

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

35.

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you, but I will instruct you in the good and right way. [I Samuel 12:23]

Bible

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To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention -- on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God -- that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer.

Auden, W. H.

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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves.

Wolpe, David J.

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Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

43.

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.

Hillesum, Etty

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme.

Proverb, Scottish

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If I regard wickedness in my heart the Lord will not hear. [Psalms 66:18]

Bible

46.

That prayer has great power which a person makes with all his might. It makes a sour heart sweet, a sad heart merry, a poor heart rich, a foolish heart wise, a timid heart brave, a sick heart well, a blind heart full of sight, a cold heart ardent. It draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up into the fullness of God; it brings together two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love.

Magheburg, Mechthild of

47.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Cohen, Leonard

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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Augustine, St.

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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

Cockburn, Alexander